'Slashdot' Easter egg in the Opera browser

When I visited Opera’s headquarters last week, David Storey mentioned to me an Easter egg in Opera that I hadn’t been aware of previously. (Software-based Easter eggs are hidden, undocumented features or messages in applications)

It turns out that this Slashdot Easter egg has been in Opera for a quite while already. If you type the “slash” and “dot” symbols in the URL bar (i.e. “/.”) and hit enter, it will forward to Slashdot’s website.

I recently discovered a keyboard shortcut I wasn’t aware of, for a feature I wasn’t aware of. When you press the period (“.”) key, it pops up a little “Find in page” search, and it will find anything you type in. I’m used to the field I always put in the toolbar, but I don’t remember anything about this popup thing…

@IceArdor: Yeah, that would be funny, considering that you don’t need an extension to make it work in Firefox. Opera isn’t the only browser that lets you assign a nickname to a bookmark (only Firefox calls it a keyword).